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THE BULLETIN OF 1'HE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
AUGUST 25, 1945
Headquarters of 0. L. A. 1 new statue of st. bernadette
Located in Aususta
The headquarters of the Catho
lic Laymen’s Association of Geor
gia have always Keen located in
Augusta. Its first office was in
the Grogan and O'Dowd building
on Ninth street, and the next lo
cation was in the Herald building.
Some years ago, the office of the
Laymen’s Association were moved
1o the fourteenth floor of the
Southern Finance building, and
later to the eighth floor of the
same building, and the present of
fice is a suite on the second floor
ot the Southern Finance Corpora
tion building.
THE BULLETIN BEGAN
PUBLICATION IN 1920
In January ot 1920. with the
late James J. Farrell as editor,
9 he Bulletin, official organ of the
Catholic Laymens’ Association of
Georgia began publication, first
quarterly in magazine form, and
later semi-monthly in tabloid
newspaper form. It was intended
originally to serve as a medium
through which news of the activity
of the association might.be brought
to the membership, but its scope
was widened in that of a Catholic
newspaper, that is now published
monthly, and with the approbation
of the Most Reverend Bishops of
Savannah- Atlanta. Charleston and
Raleigh, and of the Right Rever
end Abbol-Ordinary of Belmont,
serves as the Catholic newspaper
of Georgia and the Carolinas.
It is a member of the Catholic
Press Association of the United
States, the Georgia Press Associa
tion, and the National Editorial
Association. It subscribes to the
news service of the National Cath
olic Welfare Conference and Re
ligious News Service.
The present editor of The Bull
etin is Hugh Kinehley who in
1940 succeeded Richard Reid, who
had succeeded to the editorship
upon the death of Mr. Farrell who
died toward the close of the yon-
in which The Bulletin began pub
lication.
The staff of The Bulletin, in ad
dition to its editor, includes Miss
Cecile Ferry, financial secretary
of the Laymen’s Association, Miss
Ruth Park, and Frank Wallace,
and its advertising solicitors, Her
man Dessauer and Mis. L. R. Du
vall, of Augusta, and Robert J.
Morris, of Atlanta.
The Bulletin is printed at the
plant of The Augusta Herald with
the ^hearty and enthusiastic co
operation of every member of The
Herald's mechanical department,
as well as that of its editorial and
business offices and mailing room.
Harold Partridge and Homer C.
Cloud are directly in charge of the
make-up of The Bulletin, under
the general direction qf Albert
Huntington, foreman of The He •-
aid’s composing room.
Sister Bernadine,
Mother Superior of
Sisters of Mercy
SAVANNAH, Ga. —Sister Mary
Bcrnardine, R. S. M.. will become
Mother Superior of the Sisters of
Mercy here as changes in the order
for the coming year were announc
ed. *■
She will succeed Sister Martina
Joseph, R S. M.. who has been
transferred to Macon to be princi
pal of St. Joseph’s Parochial
School.
Sister Bernardine will retain the
principalship of St. Vincent's
Academy which she has held for
many years. She was assistant to
the Mother Superior.
Sister Mary Gilbert. R. S. M.
will become principal of the Cathe
dral School to replace Sister Mar
tina Joseph.
Sister Mary Michael Joseph. R.
S. M., has been made assistant to
Sister Bernardine as Mother Su
perior.
Others on the faculty of St.
Vincent’s Academy besides Sister
Bernardine and Sister Michael
Joseph are: Sistei^Mary Patricia,
R. S. M., Sister Mary La Salette,
R. S. M., Sister Mary Lucille, R. S.
M., and Sister Mary Jean, R. S. M.
The faculty of the Cathedral
School will be Sister Gilbert, prin
cipal; Sister Mary Columbia, R. S.
M. eighth grade; Sister Mary Ed
ward. R. S. M.. seventh grade; Sis
ter Mary Carmelila, R. S. M., sixth
grade; Sister Mary Finbarr, It. S.
M., fifth grade; Sister Mary
Thomasine, It. S. M., fourth grade:
Sr -r Mary Ita, R. S. M., third
grade; Sister Mary Canisia. It. S.
M., second grade: and Sister Mary
Annette, It. S. M., first grade.
Before entering the Sisters of
Mercy, Mother Bernardine was
Miss Louise Dorr, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. V. J. Dorr of Augusta..
Dr. Christian Petersen, noted sculptor and Associate Professor of
Applied Art at Iowa State College, finishes a new statute of St
Bernadette for the sanctuary of St Cecilia s Church, Ames, Iowa
The statue is Dr Petersen’s original interpretation of the significance
of the Saint of Lourdes He designed hiR work from authentic
portraits of Bernadette viewed against a background of standard
, biographical material. (NC Photos)
Pilgrims Gather at
St. Anne de Beaupre
Shrine in Canada
ST. ANNE DE BEAUPRE.—
Fourteen thousand pilgrims re
ceived Holy Communion and 1,90
Masses were said at this inlerna-
tionlly known shrine on the feast
of St. Ann. More than 29,000 per
sons, the greatest attendance since
the beginning of the second
World War, were present for the
various ceremonies. A number of
cures were reported unofficially.
Holy Communion was distributed
from 9 a. m. until noon without
interruption.
His Eminence Rodrigue Car
dinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of
Quebec, celebrated Mass in the
Basilica. The Cardinal also assist
ed at a Pontifical Mass celebrated
by the Most Rev. Norbert Robi-
chaud. Archbishop of Moncton.
In the afternoon there was the
impressive blessing of the sick
and Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament. The Most Rev. Fran
cis Beckman, Archbishop of Du
buque, who annually heads a large
pilgrimage to the shrine preach
ed the sermon, and also presided
when thousands followed the Way
of the Cross. Among «(he many
other members of the clergy was
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. O’Brien, of
Durham, Mass., who headed an
other group of pilgrims, a number
of whom are non-Catholics.
Among cures reported, but on
which no official comment has
been made by the authorities at
the shrine, was one of a three-year
old boy, Bernard Darcy, of Drum-
mondyille, Que., said to have been
suffering from a general feeble
ness and paralysis almost since
birth as the result of a cerebral
hemorrhage.
According to I/Action ( alliol-
iique, French-language daily
newspaper of Quebec City, this
child was unable to walk, and his
parents had 4aken him to the
shrine, where he stood up and
took several steps. He was taken
lo the scene where the sick were
to be blessed, and later to the hos
pital.
Another reported cure is that of
A. Simard, 18, of Quebec City,
who had been unable to walk for
three years because of inflamma
tory rheumatism. He had made
several pilgrimages to St. Ann’s
and to Our Lady ot the Rosary
shrine at Cap de la Madeleine.
Helped to the statue of St. Ann,
he was aided in kneeling there lo
recite the Rosary. When he had
finished he is reported to have
said he fell better and asked his
mother to help him up. The boy
then walked around the statue
twice and then 200 feet in the
church. He has been placed under
the care of Dr. Jean Dusseault.
MISS KATHERINE MORGAN
FUNERAL IN GEORGETOWN
GEORGETOWN, S. C.—Funeral
services for Miss Katherine G.
Morgan, of Georgetown, who died
on July 27, were held from St.
Mary's Church, the Rev. John
Steigner officiating.
Miss Morgan was born in George
town a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. John Morgan. She is
survived by a sister. Mrs. Agnes
M. Warden, of Georgetown.
Writer in “Coronet”
Tells of Spirit of
St. Christopher s Inn
(By N. C. W. C. News Service)
GRAYMOOR. N. Y. — Without
files, records or experts, St. Chris
topher’s Inn, conducted by the Fa
thers of the Atonement here,
continues tp rehabilitate the spir
its of broken men where profes
sional sociologists fail, according
lo an article in a recent issue ot
Coronet magazine.
The Inn, dedicated lo St. Chris
topher, patron of wayfarers, the
author says, is open to everybody.
Everything is free. To it come
men from every rank and file in
life—doctors, lawyers, business
men, laborers, and just plain
transients. They come because
they are broken in spirit and body.
Some are alcoholics, some love
lorn some nerve-wracked, and
most of them penniless and all
trying to find new meaning to life.
Some guests stay at the Inn
only a few weeks, others for years,
yet all who leave are clean shaven,
with head erect and a firm deter
mination to face life anew and
overcome its difficulties, the au
thor writes. The only thing asked
of a man who comes to the Inn is
a few hours of work each day. He
may work at anything he is in
terested in or fitted for, varying
from carpentry, masonry, and
farming to office work.
There are few restrictions at St.
Christopher's Inn, the article
slates. Drinking, swearing, gam
bling are forbidden, and lights go
off at 9:30 in the evenings. Each
man has a steel locker for his per
sonal belongings. There is a daily
ration of tobacco and anyone in
need of clothing is outfitted at the
Inn's tailor shop. The clollves are
his to keep. He may walk out of the
inn at anytime without explana
tion. •
Religious services are conduct
ed in the morning and evening
for those who wish to attend, but.
the Father*- make no suggestion
I hat guests should be present .
They do not luiow how many of
i he Brother Christophers, as the
guests are called, are Catholics.
However, the author states, the
Fathers believe that Catholics are
often in the minority.
St. Christopher’s Inn furnishes
about 179,000 meals and 90.000
sleeping accommodations e a c h
year. This home of hospitality is
the realied dream of the late
Very Rev. Paul James Francis,
founder of the Society of the
Atonement, who was a Protestant
minister before his conversion to
the Faith. After studying the life
of St. Francis of Assisi, he be
came so absorbed in the Poverel-
lo’s ideals that he founded a
community dedicated to poverty
and service. Some 39 years ago
the community entered the Cath
olic Church.
FURNISHINGS of the famous “sea
going chapel” aboard the former
French luxury liner Normandie
have been purchased at auction by
the Church of Our Lady of Leban
on in Brooklyn.
Secular Press Attacks
On Spain Are Termed
Communist-Inspired
LONDON. — The increasingly
virulent propaganda attack Oil
Spain in the British secular press
j s causing considerable disquiet
among Catholics of this country.
Secular writers said the subject
of Spain was on the agenda of the
Potsdam Conference, and some
added that Portugal also was to be
discussed.
Commenting on this, the Cath
olic. Herald warns: “We may be
certain that if anything done at
Potsdam interferes with the Ibe
rian Peninsula this will mean in
effect a furl her step along the
load to Russian-sponsored com
munism in Europe.”
To foist communism on Spain,
it is pointed out here, vyould ob
viously mean a second civil war
and. if communism were lo tri
umph, the gate " would be at least
partly opened for its infiltration
into South America.
“One suggestion in this propa
ganda attack is that the people of
Spain should be given an oppor
tunity of choosing the sort of Gov
ernment they want,” the Catholic
Tunics says. “May we suggest that
I lie same rule should be applied
to the Baltic Stales, to Poland and
lo Belgium. If the democrats of
the Left really mean that people
have a right to choose, why are
they endeavoring to cheat the
peoples of the various countries
out of the regimes they desire?
“Take the case of Belgium. The
Left demands the King’s abdica
tion. All the signs are that the
vast majority of the people want
the King’s return.
“The whole crisis in Belgium
was artificial, but it serves to
show .that Left Wing politicians
desire neither justice nor the
will of the people. They Use the
notion of popular choice just
when it seems to suit their own
purposes.”
As for Portugal the Catholic
Herald says:
“In the case of Portugal there
is no sort of case for any foreign
Dr. Michael J. Egan
Named to Savannah
Board of Education
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Dr. Michael
J. Egan has been chosen by the
Board of County Commissioners to
suceed Dr. J. Reid Broderick as
a member of the Board of Public
Education for Savannah and Chat
ham County. Dr. Broderick, at
one time president of the Catholic
Laymen’s Association of Georgia,
is leaving office because of the
limitation imposed regarding ten
ure of office.
Judge James P. Houlihan, chair
man of the Board of County Com
missioners, presenteu Dr. Egan's
name and the commissioners have
agreed upon his election which
will lake place formally in Novem
ber. He will become a member of
the board in January for a six-
year term.
Since thp law prohibits school
board members from succeeding
themselves, Dr. Broderick, whose
Cm is drawing to a close, is not
eligible for reappointment. During
his term on the board Dr. Brod
erick has served as chairman of
the committee on school employes’
health examination .and in other
capacities where his medical know
ledge has proved valuable.
Dr. Egan, prominent Catholic
physician of Savannah, is a broth
er of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Martin J.
Egan, of Follansbee. W. Va.. and
has three sisters who^are Ursu-
line Nuns.
interference. Britain’s ally, Portu
gal, rendered notable service in
the latter part of the war. It is
being much better governed today
than it has been for centuries. In
fact the only quarrel anyone can
have with Portugal is that it is
animated by Christian principles
of an authoritarian type abhorrent
to the authoritarians and tolalita-
rians of the Left. It is, of course,
entirely permissible for a Chris
tian to wish that Portugal’s politi
cal Christianity were democratic
as is that of Eire, but this is the
business of the Portuguese, not of
I he Russian communist rulers,
nor of the European Marxists.”
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